How many wires come out of the Lil' Puncher? Old-school humbuckers have just two (usually one hot wire running inside a braided metal ground wire). These kind are easy wire, because they have two wires, just like a single-coil pickup.

Some humbuckers, however, have four wires (two from each coil). With this setup, you can add a coil-tap to access just one coil (instant single-coil!). This, of course, requires more wiring and it can get complicated.

If you want to use the humbucker as a plain, old, non-splittable pickup, you join two of the four wires (solder & tape) and you're back to two wires. WHICH TWO WIRES depends on the pickup. It should say in the docs that came with the pickup -- a 'bucker I got from GFS spelled it out.

I just put in a GFS Lil Puncher in my '95 and yes, the directions are terrible. Thanks to you guys I'm up and running.

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Yeah, the GFS instructions are a bit overhyped, but at least they give you instructions and hardware, because when I ordered some Dragonfire PUs, they did not include any instructions or hardware with the new PUs, but luckily I am kind of a pack rat, so I had some extra parts, in order to install the PUs.

I bought a Dragonfire hot rail humbucker from guitarpartsonline.com (TNT Guitars) and can't find a wiring diagram for it. I didn't get one with the pickup. Does anyone out there have one? If so please post it or tell me what color wire goes where?

Hi I have a 1986 Japanese Tele with wiring that is a mess. It has a 3 way toggle and a mini toggle for coil split.The neck Humbucker has 2 sets of red , white and bare wire coming out. There is also a red . white , ground coming off the micro switch. And also a white , and a ground soldered to the volume pot. I know nothing about wiring and cant seem to find a diagram for this configuration.
Any help would be appreciated.